"AI will never replace that human judgment. And the number one reason for that is responsibility." — Elisar Nurmagambet, Co-Founder and CEO, Tesari AI

When Meta acquired the Chinese AI agent startup Manus for roughly $2 Billion, the due diligence looked clean.

Four months later, China's government blocked the deal and ordered it unwound.

Elisar Nurmagambet, Co-Founder and CEO of Tesari AI, and Brian Andersen, their Vice President of National Security Applications, join Kelly Barner to explain why the compliance model most companies still run on wasn't built for this moment, and why some of the sharpest early-warning signals in global trade never show up in a standard database at all.

In this episode Elissar and Brian discuss:

- Why "checkbox compliance" has become a board-level, CEO-level liability

- What a government-licensed social media influencer in China revealed about the Meta-Manus deal, months before it collapsed

- Why "substance over form" now determines whose jurisdiction your supply chain falls under, regardless of where an entity is legally registered

- The investigative mindset that supply chain professionals have to develop to succeed in today's challenging conditions

Links:

Elisar Nurmagambet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissarn/

Brian Andersen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbrianandersen/

Tesari AI: https://www.tesari.ai

National Security Starts in the Supply Chain (AOS, Ep 211): https://artofprocurement.com/blog/supply-national-security-starts-in-the-supply-chain

Kelly Barner on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-barner-6884443/

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